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i have installed mysql,apache /opt/. Using blastarve how i can tell php
to find mysql in /opt/mysql???? thats why i compile php with source also
i want to enable/disable lot of ptions e.g sablotron, unixODBC, how
blastwave pkg handle it?

I guess that is not related to any package maintainer, but Solaris:
use 'crle' (man crle) command to tell to systems that you have libraries
(f.e /opt/csw/mysql4/lib/mysql) somewhere else except default locations
(i am not sure, but logout/restart/reboot could be required):
---8
>
> thanks for your advise!
>
> i have installed mysql,apache /opt/. Using blastarve how i can tell php
> to find mysql in /opt/mysql???? thats why i compile php with source also
> i want to enable/disable lot of ptions e.g sablotron, unixODBC, how
> blastwave pkg handle it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Umar Draz
>
>

> I guess that is not related to any package maintainer, but Solaris:
> use 'crle' (man crle) command to tell to systems that you have libraries
> (f.e /opt/csw/mysql4/lib/mysql) somewhere else except default locations
> (i am not sure, but logout/restart/reboot could be required):
> ---8

The question is not if the versions on Sunfreeware.com are not the latest. The questions are: Do I really need the latest release?
Why do you need a more current release, does the software require it? Are you required to test software with this release? Is it fixing a bug you need fixed? Is it giving functionality that wasnt available in previous releases? Is this for a sandbox instead of a production box?

Most Bleeding edge software requires specific releases of GCC, apache, etc. Those stable versions are almost always on sunfreeware.com. It is the newer versions that break because 1. not a stable release 2. Not yet tested on bleeding edge products.

And of course the Admin who thinks he MUST install the latest version, is often the type that knows better then the collective concience, so he will install it in oddball places instead of /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin. And follow up with believing that documentation is hooey, so there will be no documentation or system logs to tell the other admins what he did.

That said, there are times you need a specific aspect of the latest and greatest. Or you are testing your software on all versions.

I prefer just installing the companion CD packages as it has most everything someone might possibly need. Since most of the Solaris tools is circa 70s or 80s, and possibly 90s. Most GNU and other companion stuff is circa 2000 or later.

Though I keep in mind that often the companion CD is not up to date. Most of the time, it doesn't matter because they use stable versions post 2000.

I have noted that quite often I have to go to sunfreeware.com to get a later stable revision for stuff like apache, gcc, and other more rapidly developing software.

Other stuff like gtar, gzip often doesn't matter as long as you have a release from the last 4 or 5 years. But just know that sunfreeware.com has newer releases then the media kit.

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